The Cathection Tour -- Docents' Talk
Laura Mulvey, a mother of psychoanalytic feminist film criticism, claims that there are two processes of spectatorship.
"(O)ne implies a separation of the erotic identity of the subject from the object on the screen (active scopophilia), the other demands identification of the ego with the object on the screen through the spectator’s fascination with and recognition of his like. The first is a function of the sexual instincts, the second of ego libido." (Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema)
Mulvey articulates the male spectator, hence the male subject. A subject is one who desires. According to this process, women don’t look but are only looked upon as objects of desire. Girls recognize their place in this spectator-desired object daisy chain. What is more desirable than girl? She knows it. She satirizes her role in this ego-libido circuit by dramatizing stereotypical zones of desire.